Lent, a season of spiritual discipline and preparation that starts annually with Ash Wednesday—which falls this year on Feb. 10—anticipates the celebration of the death and resurrection of Christ at Easter.
It is hard to imagine our Lord dancing in the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras, but I have certainly experienced God as King Merrymaker. God takes joy in interacting with creation and in empowering us to participate in God’s mission. The Lord parades all the wonderful acts of love, mercy, generosity, and goodness we accomplish together with God. Accentuating the miraculous, or the positive, not only makes us grateful, but also inspires hope, which translates into more excitement for God’s next cooperative venture.
The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations is cautiously optimistic about the prospect of peace between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP.) The U.N. Security Council recently approved plans to set up a United Nations political mission in the country. A team of international observers will be sent to monitor disarmament once the Colombian government and FARC-EP reach a final agreement.
Found guilty of criminal trespassing, Abby Brockway and her four climate activist colleagues—known as the Delta 5—are nevertheless determined to march on in their quest for climate justice. The recent Delta 5 trial was significant for a number of reasons; it brought attention to the Pacific Northwest as an up-and-coming fossil fuel corridor, and highlighted civil disobedience as a potential change agent for climate activists.
“Sometimes 15 minutes on Wednesday is the help we need to focus our week, and find our way through a season like Lent,” said the Rev. Barry Ensign-George, associate for Theology in the office of Theology and Worship. That’s just what members of the office of Theology and Worship—together with colleagues at the Presbyterian Center—will offer Presbyterians, and all who wish to participate, this Lenten season.
정서기 공천 위원장 Carol McDonald목사는 미국 장로교 총회 정서기가 되기 위해 요구되는 모든 문서들을 준비하여 완비된 지원서를 제출한 13명 중 6명에게 다음 단계의 과정으로 나아가도록 요청했다고 말했다.
그녀는 “13명의 훌륭한 사람들이 지원서를 냈으며, 그들의 경험들을 살펴볼 때 정말 믿기 힘들 정도로 놀라운 것들이었습니다. 우리는 그들 중 6명을 선정하여 대면 인터뷰에 초청하였습니다”라고 말했다.
The February meeting of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board concluded today, preparing the way for the construction of an operations plan that will guide the agency over the next two years. Key actions included approval of the 2017–18 Mission Work Plan and a 2016 budget, along with several referrals for approval or discussion at the 222nd General Assembly (2016) in Portland, Oregon.
Six of the thirteen people who submitted complete applications to become Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been asked to move to the next step in the process, said the Reverend Carol McDonald, moderator of the Stated Clerk Nomination Committee (SCNC).
“Thirteen amazing people put themselves forward and their experience is just unbelievable,” she said. “We have identified six persons who have been invited to face-to-face interviews.”
The Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has named the recipients of the 2016 Women of Faith Awards at the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board today at its meeting in Louisville.
Millions of people will be tuning in this Sunday as The Denver Broncos take on the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50. But that won’t be the only competition taking place as fans for both teams compete for a worthy cause. Churches and other organizations across the country will be participating in the Souper Bowl of Caring, an idea generated by the Spring Valley Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina in 1990.